Survey says Telford street has fastest UK broadband speed
Broadband users in Willowfield, Woodside are enjoying the UK's fastest speed, a uSwitch study has found.
Residents in Willowfield, Telford have registered speeds of 70.9Mbps over the past six months, uSwitch.com found, whilst in comparison residents of Cromarty Road in Stamford, Lincolnshire, have an average speed of 0.132Mbps.
According to the study, it would take Willowfield residents two minutes and 49 seconds to download a two hour film, and 11 seconds to download a music album, while Cromarty Road residents would need 25 hours and 15 minutes to download a two hour film, and one hour and 41 minutes to download the same album.
Lincolnshire's Burghley Road in Lincoln and Woodlands Drive in Colsterworth also registered "negligible" speeds of 0.259Mbps and 0.346Mbps respectively.
And uSwitch found those who live on Ledbury Road in Wellington Heath, Herefordshire, "would probably be better off sending snail mail than an email" with an average download speed of 0.192Mbps - the second slowest in the country.
The third slowest is Halsey Drive in Edzell, Aberdeenshire, where speeds of 0.25Mbps mean that downloading one song would take two minutes and 40 seconds.
The study found a wide variation in London speeds, with South View Road in Haringey having an average speed of 0.639Mbps.
Julia Stent, uSwitch broadband spokeswoman, said: "The massive discrepancy between the fastest and slowest streets in Britain shows what the Government is up against in its fight to drag Britain into the broadband fast-lane.
"These results show just how ambitious it is being in its bid to overtake the rest of Europe and haul Britain in line with the likes of South Korea and Singapore by bringing super-fast broadband to 90% of the UK.
"Rural parts of Britain in particular are still experiencing broadband speeds so slow that they might as well have no broadband at all.
"But worryingly, the Government's superfast broadband rollout is heavily geared towards urban areas, which will only widen the rural-urban broadband gap.“
She added: "Ultimately, anyone frustrated with their broadband service should test their speeds regularly online and compare the results to those of other broadband users in the same area.
"If the tests reveal that another provider is offering better speeds in your local area, consider switching."
The results of the survey were compiled from more than 2.2 million speed tests on homes around the country through its website between April and September 2012. Streets had to have at least 30 registered speed tests to be included.
